Researching George [Phelps?] of the Ship Recovery

Notes and References

^ By John Plummer, 148 Grand Street, Apartment 34; Waterbury,
CT 06702. Mr. Plummer has conducted genealogical research in England and
Scotland, as well as the United States, and has made extensive studies of
historic buildings. He holds a B.A. in history from New England College.

^ Quoted in J. Gardner Bartlett, Newberry Genealogy
(Boston: The author, 1914), 35, and in Charles Henry Pope, A History
of the Dorchester Pope Family (Boston: the author, 1888), 14. Both Bartlett
and Pope are documented, but the Pope's documentation falls short of
present-day standards. For example, Pope merely says that the original
manuscript diary is in the British Museum. One has to turn to Bartlett
to find the diary more specifically cited as part of Egerton Mss. 784.
Pope also states that he examined only a copy of the diary made by Mr.
James Phinney Baxter of Portland, Maine.

^ A comparative timetable can be reconstructed for
a contemporary voyage; one ship, apparently the Neptune of Coldham's
list, left Weymouth ten days after the Recovery and arrived in July
1634. See Coldham. "Genealogical Gleanings oin England," 172;
Pope, History of the Dorchester Pope Family, 14; and John Winthrop,
The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, James Savage, ed., 2 vols.
(Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1853) 1:160.

^ Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, 2:308; Thomas
Bellows Wyman, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols. (Boston:
David Clapp and Son, 1879), 1:316. As with most works of this period,
Wyman's documentation does not meet present-day standards; his statements
should be corroborated by other evidence.

^ Pope, Dorchester Pope Family, 39. The International
Genealogical Index (IGI), compiled by the Genealogical Society of Utah,
carries an entry (unverified by the present writer) for the baptism
of Patience, daughter of John Pope, dated 13 May 1632 at Honiton on
Otter, Devonshire.

^ William Blake Trask and Miss M. B. Fairbanks, "Captain
William Traske and Some of His Descendants," NEHGR 55 (July 1901):
322.

^ Two of George Proctor's daughters married Lowells
from Portbury in extreme northern Somerset, about seven miles from
Bristol. See Pope, Pioneers of Massachusetts, 375; Colket, Founders
of Early American Families, 197; and David H. Hoyt, The Old Families
of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts (3 vols., 1897-1919; reprinted
in 1 vol., Somersworth, N.H.: New England History Press, 1981), 233-34.
Since Hoyt's documentation does not meet modern standards, information
from this source should be supported by other evidence.